Re: Health effects/GMO L-tryptophan

Bargyla Rateaver (brateaver@earthlink.net)
Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:41:45 -0700

There is an organization, with a big library, with hdqtrs in both Germany
(stuttgart) and Sedona AZ, that publishes World Research News. They gather up
every tiny or large scrap of data, books, publns of many kinds, on
medical/problem topics. They have a catalog of books, videos and audio tapes.

If you have any trouble, or know of someone who has, they will send a HUGE mass
of data to you, hoping you will offer a donation. I sent for what they had on
sarcoidosis, because my son has that, and it apparently is an "orphan"
disease--who works on it/???
so he cannot find the cause or remedy. It means all the organis gradually fill
up with scar tissue, and you die.
As I am desperately in need of knowing/keeping my deeply beloved son (is)
alive, I had them send what they had. I was astounded at the range and
amount--they never let even a tiny bit of data get lost. They have a big library
of all kinds of sources.

Just thought it might be good for everyone to know about that.
World Research News World Research Fdn, World Research Bldg, 41 Bell Rock
Plaza, Sedona, Arizona 86351. 520-284-3300, fax 520-284-3530

Misha wrote:

> Howdy, all--
>
> While doing a brief search on migraine and ophthalmic migraine, I ran
> across a World Wide Web site that I thought some of you GMO watchers
> might be interested in.
>
> It's the site of the the National Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome
> Network, Inc., a non-profit organization that supports people with
> this condition. The network also encourages "research to improve
> treatment for L-tryptophan-induced EMS" and works toward "increasing
> awareness of the cause and effects of the disease."
>
> A backgrounder in the group's words:
>
> "In the fall of 1989, three patients in New Mexico were found to have
> extremely high eosinophil counts in their blood and were suffering
> from severe myalgias (muscle pain and spasms). Upon investigation it
> was determined that all three had
> ingested a petrochemically and genetically engineered product labeled
> L-Tryptophan. L-T in its natural form is an amino acid found in such
> products as milk and turkey. Within weeks the number of cases
> exploded into an epidemic of over 1,500 cases in the U.S. This new
> disease became known as Eosinophilia-Myalgia Syndrome (EMS). Victims
> of EMS were suffering in unrelenting degrees of pain. Many became
> totally and permanently incapacitated, a number were on life support
> equipment and scores of EMS victims died."
>
> The site provides medical and experiential documentation of the
> illness, the believed cause, and other issues. I pass it along for
> your interest and evaluation.
>
> There are some interesting perspectives there--a combination of the
> precautionary principle (affected patients and their families who
> feel they've been used as guinea pigs in genetic engineering) and
> risk assessment (there are links to research on the topic). And of
> course plenty of assertions by the medical community that, see?, we
> always TOLD you supplements could be harmful! I'm not saying that
> this isn't true, but it intrigues me that, at a time when iatrogenic
> causes account for so much patient illness and death, prominent
> members of the medical community are so excitedly pointing fingers
> elsewhere, instead of at themselves.
>
> It's always easier to project blame than to take responsibility, and
> much more lucrative to quash questions and dissenting opinion than to
> build it into research agendas.
>
> peace
> misha
>
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